Reviews : The New Youth Justice Barry Goldson (ed) Russell House Publishing, 2000; pp196; £14.95, pbk ISBN 1-89824-72-4
| DOI | 10.1177/026455050004700422 |
| Author | Elaine Arnull |
| Published date | 01 December 2000 |
| Date | 01 December 2000 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
I doubt that many probation officers
concern about child poverty and the
will wish to purchase the book for them-
enthusiasm with which they appear to
selves, but a copy would be a very useful
have &dquo;embraced the rhetoric of toughness&dquo;
addition to a probation library. Finally, it
(p.33). It is, however, quite a dense read.
was refreshing to find a work singularly
The first three chapters are clearly
free (for the most part) of printing and
academic in orientation and the latter
authorial errors. (I’d be happy to point out
chapters more practice focussed. This
the few I did find to the editors if they
results in some confusion for the reader,
wish to contact me!).
because there is a difference in aim and
Professor Herschel Prins
tone. It also means that the book can feel
Midlands Centre for Criminology and
a little repetitive on occasions because
Criminal Justice,
some of the arguments are rehearsed more
Loughborough University
than once. The book may have benefited
from just a single, introductory chapter
that laid out the key themes and argu-
ments forming the academic background
to the practice orientated chapters. This
could have been achieved because there
are a number of unifying threads which
run throughout the book.
Most of the authors express concern at
what they see as a move away from a
welfare orientated Youth Justice System.
The new legislation is principally viewed
by most of the contributors, as having an
increased focus on individual behaviour,
with little recourse to structural and
socio-economic explanations. Only Smith
(chapter 8) suggests that the New Labour
policy may be more than a continuation of
the preceding Conservative policy.
The New
Youth Justice
This book will be useful to students in
the
Barry Goldson (ed)
areas of probation, social work and
Russell House Publishing, 2000;
perhaps law. It lays out many of the key
debates to be had about youth justice and
pp196; £14.95, pbk
indeed within criminology at this time.
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